http://www.infoq.com/presentations/jvm-future-parallelism-cores – an interesting discussion on some aspects of the JVM in future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL3fItxuSs0&feature=youtu.be – introduction into Redis NoSQL solution http://www.infoq.com/presentations/amazon-dynamodb-patterns-practices – another presentation on NoSQL. This time about DynamoDB from Amazon. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/clojure-data-state-value – for some reason Clojure code just blows my mind. It’s the first presentation I could finally understand Clojure constructions. Still pretty interesting. https://www.edx.org/course/berkeley/cs169-1x/software-service/1136 – start of another MOOC course on edX called “Software as a Service”. The interesting thing this time is that you get a…

https://class.coursera.org/posa-001/forum/thread?thread_id=1269 – a promising MOOC course which deals with the Android http://parleys.com/p/514892280364bc17fc56c051 – a pretty old but a really good talk about bugs from the FindBugs creator. Who could know more. http://parleys.com/p/5148922b0364bc17fc56c93b – really cool talk from Java champion Adam Bien. He has some really interesting and appealing ideas regarding JavaEE development. Vacations are the perfect time to have some rest and to read some books. Here’s the list of books I found really interesting this time: http://www.addison-wesley.de/9780201835953.html – Mythical…

http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1jtcsk/heres_a_list_of_31_free_online_programmingcs – list of MOOC programming courses starting in August http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm – the future of education is here. You study whatever you need just with the help of the computer and internet, It’s unbelievably cool to see free courses from the top universities like MIT.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/jvmls2012-1840099.html A bunch of presentations from JVM Language Summit 2012. Definitely worth watching to get an idea of where JVM and ecosystem is moving. https://education.10gen.com/courses/10gen/M101J/2013_May/about – MOOC course for those who would really like to get introduction into MongoDB and NoSQL world in general. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Grails-Graph-Neo4j. A pretty interesting talk from the creator of Neo4j GORM plugin. http://www.infoq.com/articles/Brian_Goetz_Project_Lambda_from_the_Inside_Interview. Interview with Brian Goetz on Lambdas and related topics. Who could know more about these than Java Language Architect? http://go.wandisco.com/06182013_Introducing_Subversion_1.8.html – upcoming Webinar…

https://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta/entry/java_ee_7_launch_webcast. Usually you see some simple demos like this and might even say Wow. The devil is usually in the details when you start implementation of something more difficult. You often get various behaviour with a bunch of nuances for different appserver vendors. Or just simple appserver bugs which might force you to investigate server code rather than writing your own. In any case it ‘s useful to see the directions of J2EE platform movement. http://www.codeschool.com/courses. My main problem with…